Comrades provided first aid to the wounded soldier and took him to the stabilization point. Then Dnipro, Kyiv and Lviv. Maksym has been in the NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center for two months: he is recuperating and preparing for prosthetics.
Maksym Marchenko is 29. He is from the village of Gostomel near Kyiv. In peaceful life, he worked as a fitter at the Antonov aircraft factory. Maintained aircraft. In particular, and the largest in the world – the Ukrainian “Mria”, destroyed by the Russians in Maksym’s native village.
On February 24, 2022, he was at home. Before the occupiers captured Gostomel, he managed to get his daughter and mother out. And he himself turned back. I saw civilians being shot. He hid in the basement for several weeks. Survived by a miracle. After what he experienced and saw in Gostomel, Maksym volunteered to join the 93rd mechanized brigade. Fought in Donetsk region. He was seriously wounded on August 23, 2022 in Soledar.
Maxim remembers how he lost his leg. “We went on a combat mission. The infantry worked, and we were fire support. Everything was covered with mines, I carefully controlled my every step. I step on “clean” ground and in a moment I blow up. The mine was covered with earth,” he recalls.
“I have never met such a strong-minded, motivated and active man. His figures for eight weeks are excellent. He quickly masters new exercises. We mainly work on its coordination. In May, Maksym kept his balance on one leg with his eyes closed for 6 seconds, as of now it’s as many as 60 seconds!”, Oleg Bilyanskyi, head of the NEZLAMNI center, tells about the patient’s success.
From day to day Maxim will receive his first temporary prosthesis. He will learn to walk on it. And then it will become permanent. After completing rehabilitation, she dreams of helping the Armed Forces and returning to her 7-year-old daughter as soon as possible. He says: “I went to war for the bright future of our children, so that they would not see what I saw.”
Hundreds of people suffer every day due to Russian aggression, therefore, in order to make their treatment and rehabilitation comfortable and accessible in Ukraine, in Lviv, at the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, a multidisciplinary team works with every Ukrainian, providing surgical, physical, psychological and psychosocial professional assistance . Thanks to the support of donors, a prosthetics workshop was opened and bionic prostheses are installed, as well as a new modern rehabilitation building: it is 7 floors with the most modern rehabilitation equipment. Every year, 10,000 Ukrainians will be able to receive help here.